Sentences with phrase «means being violent»

Most men think being a man means being violent.

You may as well say «there are more blacks in prison than anyone else» in order to prove that being black is wrong, or means you're violent, or criminal, etc..

Not exact matches

Although their devious plots varied, all were psychopaths obsessed with seizing commercial opportunity through violent means — and most treated employees abysmally.

I mean, there was nothing even close to a violent act in anything involving the twins» organization.»

«History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.»

Ancient Christian so - called persecution at the hands of Romans is also used today as an excuse to persecute others who don't adhere to their beliefs, even by violent means.

by kill or be killed I mean according to darwinism we came about by lots of species fighting amongst each other, and the most violent ones overwelming others.

The only other possibility is that God truly is violent, and Jesus didn't fully reveal this aspect of God, which means that Jesus is not a very good representation of the true nature and character of God.

That God committed violent acts does not necessarily mean God, as to his character and being, is violent.

But if God is violent, and Jesus does not reveal the violent side of God to us, this means that Jesus is a faulty revelation of God.

@dogs2: laws meant to protect you from harm, i.e. refusing to issue a weapons permit to a convicted violent offender is a good law.

Certainly there is no better way of evading the problem of violent means.

And he can not fulfill this role by using violent means, simply because violence is of the order of necessity.

I think they mean that most people in the world aren't thinking too much about whether or not God is violent.

What I meant above is that I might give up on the book project in which I explain the violent portrayals of God in the OT in light of Jesus Christ.

They are able to conduct these political or economic wars, and if need by they will do it by violent means.

Since He shows us that God is not violent, this means that the violence needs to understood differently.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

Actually Brehvik does not consider himself a christian in his words, «in the strictest sense», so the first part of your point is moot... Secondly I think a fairer statement would be that not «all» muslims are violent extremists, as many who don't live in western countries are, as their book does instruct them to kill any and all who do not procalim allah as the one god and mohammed as his prophet... As far as having extreme passion for one's beliefs, if someone was truly to be an «extreme» christian that person would be completely loving as this was Jesus» command to love both God and everyone... to take that to the extreme would mean «extreme» loving, like the radical kind of love that caused Jesus to endure the cross for the sins of us all... includinig the man who committed this atrocity and yes any and all of the muslim's who have committed similar things.

Along these lines, is it an accident that history's most famous murderer, Adolf Hitler, died by his own violent hand, by the same means by which he delegated others to kill his victims?

...» --- I think he means that Christianity got a lot of what Islam is going through now out of its system hundreds of years ago and hopefully in a few hundred years Islam will also have weeded out the violent fanatics.

I think what Dave meant was that the previous behavior would have indicated a somewhat violent response from Muslims and that the maker should have expected that, not that the violent response was justified.

How do we find means or patterns of Christian life and practice that are faithful to the call for peacemaking in an increasingly violent and divided situation?

It is not the religion that is violent, but the people that twist its word to mean violence.

i simply want to know how the «newer» muslim phrophet (don't even know his name) taught his followers how to change the concept of violence as a means for jihad and / or self - defense into something that isn't violent (if that is what he did — i do not know except for this conversation).

Some might say that I'm using the word «abuse» too liberally because they would claim that it means a cruel and violent treatment of another person.

That violent revolution wherever possible should be averted by any honorable means, since it not only induces hate and bloodshed but often destroys more than it builds;

Ecclesiology — If God is not violent, then what does this mean for the church's place in the world, especially regarding war and patriotism?

That is to say: The risks run and the liabilities incurred through the use of violent means were generally not out of proportion to the ends sought.

And he may well be forced to take ever new and violent means to get his vision across to a hostile audience.

This does not mean that all Muslims are violent extremists.

It is clear, however, that films and television play a role not only in reflecting but also in contributing to a violent and mean world.

To make a violent man docile by technological means is to destroy his humanity.

We've heard that the Religious Right is mean, bigotted, and violent.

Possibly it was the millennial drive toward a total transformation of the earth condition that led us, resentful that the perfect world was not yet achieved by divine means, to set about the violent subjugation of the earth by our own powers in the hope that in this way the higher life would be attained, our afflictions healed.

Today's so called Muslim Brotherhoods are but fascist bands of youth orientated Islamists seeking out socialized nationalistic power thru physically violent means as is now being played out within the Middle East nations as is now the case in Syria....

So Jesus» words should be translated, «Do not resist evil by violent means.

This is not, of course, to deny that the meaning can change or that many Muslims sincerely object to the violent denotation that the word has had.

They can not defend their violent book, they can only turn to pages that contradict the violent parts and claim that God doesn't change except when he does because it's not a contradiction when he does it, kind of like when Nixon said «When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.»

The old «Christianity is evil because Christianity has killed millions» argument... If you read the Bible, there are many times that God commanded His people to destroy other groups of people through, gasp, violent means, because those people had rejected Him completely and were ruining the earth, which He had made.

By that I mean, God in the OT was not «violent» but judging.

Moreover, if the prince uses justly the power he seized by violent means, it is legitimized in the end.

Yet it is together, as church, that we are meant to witness to peace in a cruel and violent world and bring a message of hope in the face of despair.

* that the world is an increasingly violent place and one is justified in protecting oneself by violent means

Are there wrongs so grave that only violent means can set them right?

To view Alwyn» s violent act from a separate or individualistic point of view is to miss the systemic nature of the act and the deeper meanings which help to constitute its future implications (JBSP 218).

Latin America, then, is a situation of present oppression and impending revolution; and one of the chief issues raised in this situation is whether or not that revolution ought to be pursued by violent means.

Second, is the Marxist committed to an unending spiral of violence by his use of violent means?

In fact, this poem is so magnificently made that the pattern of majestic freedom and violent death can be sensed simply from the rhythm of the words apart from their meaning.

I mean no one in the past 1400 years has ever paraphrased the verses you put up to show how violent Islam is.